Worst of Colby College

A Big Fat F

The town is very dead, and most of the places in Waterville are not within walking distances anyway. There are no other colleges nearby. The place where you will meet most Bowdoin or Bates students is the Portland airport, and the most frequent form of interaction with the people of Waterville is ordering pizza from Waterville House of Pizza. I have nothing against the residents of Waterville, but it is very difficult to meet them. The town-gown relation is not as strained as Colby students may think. Colby is a very affluent college in a poor town, but we do try to reach out to the town through programs like CCAK and other volunteering programs. I have not encountered any hostility from Waterville residents yet.

Drugs

The campus has an average drug and alcohol usage. It is not openly visible which students are or are not drinking or doing drugs and the campus security constantly walks around campus to make sure no one is breaking the law of underage drinking.

One area Colby lacks

Compared to other colleges with similar academic reputation, Colby strongly lacks diversity partly because it is located in Maine, the whitest state in the country. Colby claims that 16 percent of the student body are international students, but this figure includes dual citizens and permanent residents. An average Colby student lives 20 minutes outside of Boston and went to a prep school. The wealth on this campus can be overwhelming at times. Colby aggressively recruits Posse scholars and UWC students, who are probably responsible for at least half of the non-white students on campus.